STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in physics is being awarded Tuesday, a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence — were awarded the Nobel Prize ...

An "invisibility cloak", an atomic force microscope or quantum computing are some of the scientific achievements that could ...

An “invisibility cloak”, an atomic force microscope or quantum computing are some of the scientific achievements that could ...

While the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences hands out the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, the Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Swedish Academy ...

Some Nobel Prize winners use the award proceeds to fund research or support others in their field, while others put the money towards houses, boats and even croquet lawns.

With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a ...

The geography of science is changing. As a result, a big push is needed to broaden the pool of scientists eligible to ...

Until this year, the Nobel Prize for physics has typically gone to pioneers in that field, like last year’s winners who used ...